I have an old school MS-Dos question

Factual Questions
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Back ground: I work for a medical software/transcription company. A fairly large clinic wants to use a format our software does not support the transfer of, we do have a proprietary ftp program but our web based program runs much smoother. So I write up a batch file that will change the extension to wav (which will allow it to upload), at the end of the batch file I have it open internet explorer. The batch file looks like this. My question is, is there any way I can open a specific site other than their home page from DOS, if so can you please relay the command?

Thanks in advance.

Clever Hans

@Echo Please wait while your voice files are being copied…
@echo off
@h:
@echo off
@cd dss_flda
@echo off
@rename h:\dss_flda*.dss *.wav
@echo off
@cd…
@echo off
@cd dss_fldb
@echo off
@rename h:\dss_fldb*.dss *.wav
@echo off
@cd…
@echo off
@cd dss_fldc
@echo off
@rename h:\dss_fldc*.dss *.wav
@echo off
@move h:\dss_flda*.wav c:\dict
@echo off
@move h:\dss_fldb*.wav c:\dict
@echo off
@move h:\dss_fldc*.wav c:\dict
@echo off
@C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe

2

Why don’t you put the name of the file you wish to open after iexplore.exe?

3

example…
@C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe www.yahoo.com

4

I appreciate the answeres, and did it right before I came back and checked on the board. Thanks again.

5

That’s how I’d do it.

6

You don’t need the @ sign before each and every line. All it does is to not put the command on the screen. I noticed you had @echo off, which does the same thing for the entire batch file. If you put that at the start of the file, you can delete the @ from the other lines. Also, you shouldn’t need the echo off command every few lines.